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Mean Quotes by Georg C. Lichtenberg
- To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that…
- Reading means borrowing.
- To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be…
- There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.
- To read means to borrow; to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts.
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